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The Trend in ENGINEERING The Trend in ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER SPRING 2018 Meet EMAR, a robot being developed to better understand teen stress Pages 4-5 FROM THE DEAN Celebrating state support FACULTY HONORS and student success Maya Cakmak, assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Greetings! I’m excited to open this issue with good news from Science & Engineering, and Arka the 2018 state legislative session: The College received $600,000 Majumdar, assistant professor of in capital funds for pre-design of a new multidisciplinary electrical engineering and physics, engineering building. And, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer received Sloan Research Fellowships. Science & Engineering received $3 million to complete a goal of doubling the number of computer science degrees from 300 to Amazon Professor of Machine Learning 600 annually. This is a significant development that allows us to Emily B. Fox, an associate professor continue to pursue growth plans to meet student and industry in the Allen School and of statistics, demand. We appreciate the state’s partnership and investment. received a Presidential Early Career Last year, we featured a story about a new Direct to College (DTC) Award for Scientists and Engineers. freshman admission process. I’m pleased to share that DTC offers Mechanical engineering professor went out for the class of 2022 in March. We expect to have Dayong Gao and Anthony Waas, over 700 students in the inaugural cohort and professor and Boeing-Egtvedt Endowed are busy preparing for their integration into the Chair of Aeronautics & Astronautics, engineering community. Prior to arriving on were elected to the Washington State campus, students will be paired with an Academy of Sciences. engineering adviser and peer mentor to help James Riley, PACCAR Endowed guide them through their first year. The first- Professor of Mechanical Engineering, year program is designed to encourage was named as an American Association exploration of engineering majors, build for the Advancement of Science fellow. community and provide unique educational and leadership opportunities. Bioengineering professor Paul Yager was elected as a National Academy of As student interest in STEM soars, so does Inventors Fellow. attendance at Engineering Discovery Days, a two-day event held in April. This year we hosted over 10,000 elementary, middle and high school students on campus and introduced them to the exciting field of engineering. Discovery Days is a terrific experience for our state’s K-12 students and is a valuable educational experience for our engineering students who are key to the event’s success. Our students design and host exhibits and activities that range from the ever popular “Walk on Water” to the sold-out “Glowing Pickle.” If you haven’t experienced Discovery Days, I hope you’ll consider joining us in the future. Mike Bragg Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering PAGE 2 The TREND Spring 2018 COLLEGE NEWS AR / VR innovation Small scale, big impact The UW Reality Lab will develop next- The Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems generation augmented and virtual reality (NanoES) brings together nanoscale science and technologies and educate an industry engineering researchers with industry partners workforce. and entrepreneurs. The UW has launched a new augmented and virtual Housed in a new, multimillion-dollar facility on campus, the reality research center — funded by Facebook, Google NanoES Institute will pursue impactful advancements in a variety and Huawei — to accelerate innovation and educate of disciplines — energy, materials science, computation and the next generation of researchers and practitioners. medicine — at a technological scale a thousand times smaller The $6 million UW Reality Lab, funded with equal than the width of a human hair. contributions from the three sponsors, creates one “The UW is well known for its expertise in nanoscale materials, of the world’s first academic centers dedicated to processing, physics and biology — as well as its cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality. The new center in nanofabrication, characterization and testing facilities,” said Karl the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Böhringer, director of the new institute and a professor of electrical Engineering will support research and education engineering and bioengineering. “NanoES will build on these initiatives with potential to deliver game-changing strengths, bringing together people, tools and opportunities to breakthroughs in the field. develop nanoscale devices and systems.” “Allen School faculty have produced pioneering The institute’s unique approach to innovation and industry research in many of the areas that underpin AR and collaboration will hasten the development of solutions to the field’s VR technologies, including computer vision, graphics, most pressing challenges: the manufacturing of scalable, high- perception and machine learning,” said Hank Levy, yield nano-engineered systems for applications in information Allen School director and Wissner-Slivka Chair in processing, energy, health and interconnected life. Computer Science & Engineering. The institute’s centerpiece is its headquarters, the Nano Engineering “Through our partnership with Facebook, Google and Sciences Building, which houses 90,300 square feet of and Huawei, the Allen School and UW will be at the research and learning space and was funded largely by the College forefront of the next great wave of AR and VR of Engineering and Sound Transit. In addition to featuring dynamic innovation — pursuing breakthrough research and classroom and laboratory space, the building’s location and design educating the next generation of innovators in this elements are intended to limit vibrations and electromagnetic exciting and rapidly expanding field,” he added. interference so it can house sensitive experiments. The TREND Spring 2018 PAGE 3 “How many of you feel stressed at school?” When Elin Björling asks a group of Seattle high school students this question, every hand shoots in the air. Björling, a human centered design and engineering (HCDE) research scientist who studies teen stress, is not surprised. “Teens experience stress more so than any other age group, and that stress can negatively impact their mental TheA intersection ROBOT of engineering and physical health,” she says. and neuroscience promises Yet when it comes to stress research, more studies are needed to confidant understand vulnerable adolescents. According to Björling, researchers great advances in health care. lack quality data to understand how, when and why stress occurs in teens TheMeet UW is establishingEMAR, a itselfrobot or what normal, healthy stress looks like. as a global leader in the field Enter EMAR (Ecological Momentary Assessment Robot), a friendly little spurredbeing on developedby the College by robot being developed by UW researchers with big hopes of disrupting this data void. Björling is leading this research team with UW Tacoma of Engineering’sUW researchers significant to Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences assistant professor and HCDE alumna investments in faculty and Emma Rose, ‘11 PhD, and Maya Cakmak, an assistant professor in the cutting-edgebetter understand research. teen Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Known as Project EMAR, their team is creating a social robot that will help stress and emotional schools better measure stress. Their goal is to design a robot that would live in a high school and collect data on students’ emotional well-being. well-being. The project is supported by the National Science Foundation’s National Investing in innovation: UWRobotics advances Initiative. the future of neural engineering By Chelsea Yates Why use a robot? Although there is a great deal of research on human-robot interaction, including focused studies on specific age groups like children and seniors, little exists on teen-robot interaction. EMAR’s researchers see this as an opportunity. “Today’s teens will likely be the first generation to spend a lifetime interacting with robots,” explains HCDE junior Wesley Muthemba. “So in addition to gathering important data related to stress, our project will help fill in some human-robot interaction research gaps, which is exciting.” Muthemba is one of approximately 30 students who have helped shape Project EMAR through independent studies and directed research groups. Students from across the College of Engineering, the Information School and UW Tacoma have participated in all stages of research, design and robot prototyping. The team is designing EMAR to use a research methodology called Ecological Momentary Assessment to gather real-time data. “The team realized early on that if we’re going to ask teens to share real-time feedback, we needed to provide them with a cool, interesting way to do so,” says Muthemba. “So why not give them a social robot to interact with?” PAGE 4 PAGE 4 The TREND Spring 2018 Investing in innovation: UW advances the future of neural engineering Cute, not creepy the questions we’re exploring right now,” says Rose. To ensure that high school students will feel comfortable The researchers have also learned that students are curious engaging with EMAR, the team has held multiple user- about EMAR’s race and gender. focused sessions with teens. “It never crossed our minds to design for race or gender, “High school wasn’t that long ago for me, and I thought I but it’s been interesting to observe how soon students want had a good idea of how teens would respond to EMAR,” to know if EMAR is a boy or a girl,” says Björling. “This has says HCDE junior Rachel Ren, the project’s undergraduate prompted us to think about how race and gender are research assistant. “But one of the first things we learn in communicated and, as designers, how mindful we need to HCDE is to let go of our assumptions and listen objectively, be about our roles in that process.” and I’m glad we’ve taken this approach because we’ve learned so much!” Potential for impact For example, the team discovered that the students over- Using a robot to collect information about students raises whelmingly preferred simple, approachable robot designs privacy concerns.
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